Daniel Musgrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the line matches the above conditions and is echoed without being > quoted ($var, not "$var"), the result is the single character 'w'.
Read the manual about Filename Expansion. > Similarly, 'echo [w]' produces the expected output of '[w]', Try the same while in /usr/bin. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash